The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, In my absence, the two biggest stories to emerge from South Africa were the intensifying political tensions ahead of the upcoming elections, and the ongoing economic…
Older, No Wiser
Britain’s Political ‘Establishment’ Hannes Wessels, It with some bemusement I read recently, in an article written by Professor Michael Evans who lectures at the Australian Defence College, of the panic…
The Other Side of Elon Musk – Petulant, Spiteful and Malicious
Will Keys, The apple, as the old adage goes, does not fall far from the tree. In the case of Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a technological visionary,…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 9 March – Sunday 16 March: On Sunday evening, chaos erupted in Bucharest as supporters of Calin Georgescu protested the rejection of his candidacy for the Romanian…
Trump Derangement Syndrome Alive and Well in South Africa.
Hannes Wessels, It has long fascinated – and distressed me – how white journalists, reporters, editors, media proprietors and white led pressure groups in South Africa have seldom missed an…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 12 January – Sunday 19 January: On Monday, U.S. President Joe Biden gave his final address from the State Department on the standing of American foreign policy…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 28 April – Sunday 5 May: On Sunday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrived on an unannounced visit to Beijing where he met with senior officials to discuss…
Singularity – ChatGPT – Old Rupert
Let’s talk about the evolution of Artificial General Intelligence, or ‘AI’, which has been a popular topic in science fiction for decades. Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that the “Technological Singularity,”…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, In China, quarter 1 GDP growth has been higher than expected at 4.5% beating the estimates of 4% growth from a Reuters poll of economists. Chinese consumers went…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier Sunday 9 April – Sunday 16 April On Monday there was a mass shooting at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky. A lone gunman who was a…